WITTERSHAM - Kent Fallen

KNIGHT S
Private 2295 Sydney KNIGHT. 3 rd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (London Regiment). Died
Saturday 27 th February 1915 aged 20 years. Born Wittersham. Enlisted Shepherds Bush,
London. Son of Charles and Mary Knight of “Hamgreen”, Wittersham, Ashford, Kent. Buried in the
Bailleul Communal Cemetery, Bailleul, France. Grave reference J.9.
The 1901 census gives –
……….. Lane, Wittersham
Charles KNIGHT 39 Agricultural Doddington
Mary A 38 Stone
Mildred 14 Wittersham
William 11 Wittersham
Dorothy 9 Wittersham
Sydney 6 Wittersham
Percy 1 Wittersham
Louis 1 Wittersham
Edwin 1m Wittersham
On the 18 th January 1915 the battalion sailed on the SS Atlantian from Southampton to Le Havre.
On the 2 nd February the battalion was in Ouderdom. On the 8 th it was at Bedford House with the
2 nd Buffs. On the 19 th it was at Locre in Belgium. On the 22 nd February the battalion moved into
frontline trenches at Kemmel. The battalion remained in trenches at Kemmel until the 26 th
February when it withdrew to Westoutre. Sydney was probably wounded earlier in the month and
was evacuated through the medical chain to a base hospital at Bailleul where he eventually died
of wounds. His body was buried near to the hospital.
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